Forests

Forests

Forests provide a
versatile source of raw
material for many different
end uses. In Europe
different industries have
networked in a way that
allows best and most
efficient use of wood raw
material; biggest and most
valuable logs are used for
construction purposes,
whereas smaller trees are
used in pulp and paper
manufacturing. Chips, a
by-product from sawmilling,
also form a significant
source of raw material paper
mills. Small branches and
harvesting leftovers are
used to produce bio-energy.

We always know
the origin of the wood
that is used:

Our traceability
systems cover 100%
of the wood we use.

100% of our
purchased wood and
pulp is covered by
third party
verification, such
as Chain of Custody,
Controlled Wood and
ISO 14001.

Certification is a
voluntary measure for
forest owners to
demonstrate responsible
forest management. The
forest certification
systems are based on
open stakeholder
processes where a
standard for responsible
forest management is
developed. A certified
forest is regularly
audited by an
independent third party
to ensure it complies
with the forest
certification standard.
Since forest conditions
differ worldwide, there
is a need for more than
one forest certification
system.

Stora Enso
actively participates
and promotes the
development of forest
certification standards
nationally and
internationally.

75% of the wood
in Stora Enso’s wood
supply is certified
even though only 10%
of the world’s
forests are
certified.

As only 10% of
the world’s forests
are certified we
make sure that also
non-certified fibres
come from
sustainable sources:
100% of our wood can
be traced back to
its origin by our
traceability
systems. The
traceability systems
we use for all
purchased wood and
pulp, such as FSC
Controlled Wood and
PEFC Due Diligence
System, are 100%
verified by third
parties.

The first link in the
Chain-of-Custody is
always a certified
forest (Forest
Management or FM
certification), followed
by one/several links in
the “Chain-of-Custody”
(CoC) of the same system
(FSC or PEFC). Everyone
who “takes ownership”
has to be certified
(incl. converters etc.).

Plantations

Plantations

Plantations are growing
worldwide and will
increasingly service the
demand for industrial
timber, pulp and paper, and
wood bio-energy. They
provide cost-effective raw
material, as growth rates
are up to ten times higher
to the Northern hemisphere.

Tree plantations are often
criticized for endangering
biodiversity. However, the
sustainability related
impacts of plantations
depend on which type of
land-use they are replacing
and how they are managed.
Sustainable tree plantations
are economically profitable,
support the conservation of
native ecosystems, and
enhance local welfare.

Plantation management in
Veracel

To find out more about
how we manage our
plantations, watch this
video from our plantation in
Veracel, Brazil.

Our sustainable
plantation management
principles

We never convert
natural forests or
protected areas into
plantations

We recognize
indigenous peoples’
legitimate rights to
traditional land and
land use

We respect the needs
of local land use

We apply
environmental and
social impact
assessments

We consider open and
active dialogue with
all stakeholders

We support various
certification
systems for
plantations

Recycled
fibre

Recycled fibre

Stora
Enso is the third largest
user of Paper for Recycling
in Europe. The volume of
Paper for Recycling used
accounts for some 26% of our
total fibre use in our paper
and board production.
Recycled fibre would not
exist if we did not first
have virgin fibre or primary
fibre as it is sometimes
called. Paper made of
recycled fibres can
typically be reused 5-7
times. It is suitable for
products with a short life
cycle like newspaper.

Langerbrugge Mill

This video takes you to
our Langerbrugge Mill, which
uses 100 % recycled fibre.
The mill is located in an
area where 80 million people
live in a 300 km radius.

26%Of our total
fibre is Paper for
Recycling

We strive to use
Paper for Recycling
particularly in densely
populated areas

Old newspapers and
magazines are used at
Langerbrugge Mill in
Belgium (where they
account for 100% of
sourced fibre), Sachsen
Mill (100%) and Maxau
Mill (> 60%) in Germany,
Hylte Mill in Sweden
(50%) and Dawang Mill in
China (100%).

While the
manufacturing of
recycled fibre based
paper might consume
less energy than
producing virgin
fibre based paper
with chemical
pulping, the fossil
CO2
emissions of the
latter will in most
cases be much lower.

Maximizing recycled
fibre content for
its own sake without
considering product
type, mill
performance or mill
location is neither
environmentally nor
economically viable.
And not to forget:
paper is based on
renewable raw
materials, and it is
recyclable – which
makes it
fundamentally
different from many
other materials.

3. Environmentally friendly production
process

This drawing depicts
the paper cycle, from fibre processing over
paper making to end use and recycling. Click
on elements in the drawing to see how we
strive to make our paper as environmentally
friendly as possible.

This drawing depicts the
paper cycle, from fibre processing over
paper making to end use and recycling. Click
on elements in the drawing to see how we
strive to make our paper as environmentally
friendly as possible.

Logs are chopped into
wood chips which are cooked
with chemicals. This removes
lignin and separates the
wood into cellulose fibres.
By-products, such as black
liquor can be burnt for
biomass energy. Modern pulp
mills are net energy
producers which can often
supply power to the grid, or
steam to local domestic
heating plants.

Mechanical pulp

What is it
used for?

Mechanical pulp is used mainly in
newsprint and wood-containing
papers, such as lightweight coated
(LWC) and super-calendered papers.

Wood logs are pressed
against rotating stones. The
heat generated by grinding
softens the lignin binding
the fibres, and the
mechanical forces separate
the fibres to form
groundwood pulp. Mechanical
pulping provides a good
yield from the pulpwood
because it uses the whole of
the log except for the bark,
but the energy requirement
is high and can only be
partly compensated by using
the bark as fuel.

Recycled fibre

What is it
used for?

De-inked pulps have mixed
characteristics, as many different
types of paper are included in Paper
for Recycling.

This makes them particularly suited
to applications such as newsprint
and increasingly, packaging.

PfR is made into slurry
and contaminants are
removed. Before the fibre
can later on be used in
graphical paper grades, in a
next step printing inks have
to be removed.”

The process of paper making

On the paper machine, water is
added to the pulp.

Water is then removed on wire
section by a mixture of gravity and
suction. In this process, known as
sheet formation, the fibres start to
spread and consolidate into a thin
mat.

This web of wet paper is then
lifted from the wire mesh and
squeezed between a series of presses
where its water content is lowered
to about 50%.

It then passes around a series
of cast-iron cylinders, heated to
temperatures in excess of 100ºC,
where drying takes place. Here the
water content is lowered to between
5% and 8%, its final level.

Throughout its passage from the
wire mesh to the drying operation,
the paper web is supported by
various types of endless fabric
belts moving at the same speed. At
the end of the paper machine, paper
is wound into reels.

The characteristics, appearance
and properties of paper are
supplemented and enhanced by their
final treatments. These may be
processes such as coating,
calendaring, converting into more
narrow reels or sheet cutting.

Transportation

Depending on their locations, our
products are transported by vessel,
truck or rail to publishers,
retailers, printing houses,
merchants, converters and office
suppliers.

The environmental impacts of
logistical operations are an
important factor when we evaluate
different transport and supply chain
solutions. Stora Enso actively
promotes transport solutions with
good environmental performance. Our
transport chains are planned in line
with our environmental policies and
always analyzed for their
environmental footprint.

End use & Recycling

Paper is turned into products
that fit the end consumers’
purposes, be it as newspapers,
magazines copy paper, books,
envelopes etc.

The efficiency of the recycling of
paper and packaging depends on the
local infrastructure within national
collection schemes and recovery
systems. Consumers have a key role
by recycling used packages,
newspapers, magazines etc.
Municipalities play a crucial part
by providing the necessary
infrastructure and adequate consumer
information on the relevance of
recycling.

All Stora Enso’s products are based
on renewable raw material and do not
contain harmful heavy metals or
other dangerous ingredients. At the
end of their life-cycle our products
can be recycled or ultimately burned
for bioenergy. Stora Enso actively
promotes and participates in
recycling schemes, and is one of
Europe’s largest users of Paper for
Recycling (PfR).

97%The utilization of waste
generated at Stora Enso

Waste
management

Stora Enso’s production processes
generate various wastes, the vast
majority of which are beneficially
reused as residuals. Such materials
include bark and wood waste, ash
from energy production, lime solids
from pulping processes, and
wastewater treatment sludge. Many of
these materials can be used for
bioenergy production, for
agricultural purposes, or for brick
manufacturing and road construction.
We are constantly looking for new
and innovative ways to reuse
materials that would otherwise end
up as wastes. In 2014 our waste and residuals reuse rate
across the Group was
98%.

4. Product & Environment Tool Kit

This section contains details on
different certificates, ecolabels and paper
profiles we use to demonstrate the
sustainability of our products and
processes. It also contains a list of the
initiatives we closely support.

Certificates

Certificates

Why are certificates needed?

Different management systems
are used to ensure that company
policies turn into action. All
management systems, be it
quality, environment or
occupational health and safety,
require that relevant aspects
are identified, targets set,
practices to control relevant
aspects are implemented and
performance is regularly
followed up. Management systems
are therefore a powerful tool in
ensuring continuous improvement
of performance.

Our approach

All Stora Enso Printing
and Reading mills are
covered by third-party
certified management systems
for Quality (ISO 9001)
Environment (ISO 14001),
Occupational Health and
Safety (OHSAS 18001) as well
as PEFC™ and FSC®
Chain of Custody. In
addition to this, several of
the mills also have third
party certified Energy
Management systems (ISO
50001 or EN 16001).

Certification is managed
on a Business Area level.
The so called “Multi-site
certification” supports the
further alignment of
practices and sharing of
information and experiences.

Our certificates

Click on any certificate to
find out more on the
certificates’ home pages.

Ecolabels

Ecolabels

What are they?

Ecolabels are voluntary tools
indicating that awarded products
have a reduced environmental
impact compared to similar
products. The related criteria
addresses the whole product life
cycle and is defined in a way
that only a certain percentage
of products can meet them.

Our ecolabels

Paper
profile

Paper profile

What is it?

Paper Profile is a uniform
declaration for presenting key
environmental product
information. It covers relevant
environmental aspects related to
pulp and paper production,
including product composition
and emissions, wood procurement
and environmental management.
Information presented on Paper
Profiles is based on
standardized common guidelines,
making it possible to compare
environmental aspects of
different companies and
products.

Our approach

Stora Enso Printing and
Reading has Paper Profiles for
all products. These are updated
annually, and provided to
customers on request.

Carbon
Cycle and Carbon Footprint

Carbon Cycle and Carbon Footprint

The pulp and paper industry
has a unique
carbon cycle, from raw
material generation to recycling
of the end product. Sustainably
managed forests remove carbon
dioxide (CO2)
from the athmosphere and store
it as carbon. On average, a
typical tree absorbs through
photosynthesis the equivalent of
one thousand kilos of CO2
for every cubic metre (m³)
growth while producing the
equivalent of 700 kilos of
oxygen (O2).
Carbon is further stored in
paper industry products that
provide a climate friendly
alternative to many
non-renewable materials. At the
end of their life-cycle all our
products can be recycled or
ultimately burned into energy.

Carbon
Footprint
is used to describe
the amount of
greenhouse gases
caused by an
individual, an
organization, a
process, or a
product.

Stora Enso Paper
has calculated the
Carbon Footprints of
its product
segments, following
the manual adopted
by the European
Association of
Graphic Paper
Producers,
EURO-GRAPH to guide
companies to prepare
their data sets in
line with the
"Framework for the
Development of
Carbon Footprints
for Paper and Board
Products", developed
by the Confederation
of European Paper
Industries, CEPI.
These Carbon
Footprints comprise
direct and indirect
CO2
emissions
(associated with
producing fibre,
other raw materials
and fuels, pulp and
paper production,
purchased and sold
energy and inbound &
internal transports)
and biogenic carbon
retained in the
paper as leaving our
mills, and thus
removed from the
atmosphere.

Our approach

The figures are
presented in Carbon
Footprint Fact
Sheets, which we are
happy to provide to
customer on request.
Whenever checking
these Carbon
Footprints against
others, readers are
supposed to ensure
they will be looking
at figures
comparable from both
scope/boundaries and
calculation
perspectives. They
should also keep in
mind that while the
Carbon Footprint
certainly is a
relevant parameter,
it is after all just
one of several
indicators
characterizing the
environmental
performance of a
product and the
respective
manufacturing
processes!

Common
initiatives

Common initiatives

Print Power

Print Power is a
pan-European
organization
dedicated to
promoting print
media and its role
in modern integrated
marketing programs
and campaigns. The
organization
comprises a wide
range of companies
representing the
entire print media
value chain –
production,
distribution,
printing, content
and delivery. This
gives Print Power a
unique level of
expertise and
experience in all
areas of the print
industry. Stora Enso
Paper is supporting
Print Power.

Two Sides

Two Sides is an
initiative by
companies from the
Graphic
Communications
supply Chain
including forestry,
pulp, paper, inks
and chemicals,
prepress, press,
finishing,
publishing and
printing. The common
goal is to promote
the responsible
production and use
of print and paper,
and dispel common
environmental
misconceptions by
providing users with
verifiable
information on why
print and paper is
an attractive,
practical and
sustainable
communications
medium. Stora Enso
Paper is supporting
Print Power.

EURO-GRAPH

EURO-GRAPH is the
European Association
of Graphic Paper
Producers, which
represents the
industry sectors of
Europe's newsprint,
magazine, and fine
paper grades. Stora
Enso is a member of
EURO-GRAPH. Through
its member
companies,
EURO-GRAPH is
thoroughly committed
to sustainable
development of its
industry. It has an
Environmental
Working Group (EWG)
which focuses mainly
on product-related
environmental
matters. The EWG
advises the
EURO-GRAPH Board of
Directors on actions
aimed at protecting
and improving the
environmental
reputation of
graphic paper
products. Stora Enso
Paper is represented
in the EWG.

Paper by Nature

Paper by Nature
is an association
promoting
environmentally
friendly practices
in the paper
converting industry
as well as the
responsible use of
paper amongst
consumers, initiated
by several key
European industrial
actors. The
Association has
developed the Paper
by Nature Eco-label
which objective it
is to offer a global
reference for
European consumers
of converted paper
products. Stora Enso
is a member of Paper
by Nature.